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Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$760k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$41k0%
FY20244$38k0%
FY20234$44k25%
FY20223$40k0%
FY20217$43k43%
FY20205$39k0%
FY20195$42kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$179kArts & Culture$74kHealth$23kEducation$4kAnimals$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Center$109,18972%
Senior Citizen Council$64,50070%
Sheridan Health Center Inc$22,50032%
Sheridan Arts Council$5,8003n/a
Volunteers of America Northern Rockies$4,90020%
Dog & Cat Shelter Inc$4,00010%
Sheridan County Library Foundation$4,00011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott FoundationWY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Riggs Foundation · Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · The Seidler Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund

How much does Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund give?
Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund reported 4 grants totaling $40,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (62%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (8%).
Who are Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Children's Center ($109k), Senior Citizen Council ($65k), Sheridan Health Center Inc ($23k).
Does Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation, The Roberts Family Foundation, Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc.
Where is Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund based?
Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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